Towards Deep Hope:Climate Tragedy, realism and Policy

Philosopher John Foster sets out here what climate change tells us about the place of human beings in the world and what being realistic about our climate future entails. He argues that active recognition that our climate plight is already tragic is the only way to keep honest the kind of hope on which we must now rely. That means not only escaping from the recently-popular and still solutions-oriented ‘wicked-problem’ framing of the issues, but also building tragic awareness into all practical policy thinking henceforth.